[time-nuts] Rubidium standard

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Nov 23 22:47:44 UTC 2009


In message <4B0B0ED6.3080100 at xtra.co.nz>, Bruce Griffiths writes:

>This lamp wear out mechanism is avoided if one uses laser interrogation 
>of the absorption cell.

About that...

Isn't that the sort of experiement we should try to lure Tom into doing ?

There must be a way to create a DIY conversion of old Rb's to laser...

Poul-Henning

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